crime injuries during the conflict

6 Conflict Theory of Crime

A theory that helps us begin to examine the legal order critically is the one I call the social reality of crime. Applying this theory, we think of crime as it is affected by the dynamics that mold the society’s social, economic, and political structure. First, we recognize how criminal law fits into capitalist society. The legal order gives reality to the crime problem in the United States. Ev...

Penetrating missile injuries during asymmetric warfare in the 2003 Gulf conflict.

BACKGROUND War wounds produce a significant burden on medical facilities in wartime. Workload from the recent conflict was documented in order to guide future medical needs. METHODS All data on war injuries were collected prospectively. This information was supplemented with a review of all patients admitted during the study period. RESULTS During the first 2 weeks of the conflict, the sole...

Sociological and Human Developmental Explanations of Crime: Conflict or Consensus

Crime and Conflict: Homicide in Evolutionary Psychological Perspective

Criminological theories are usually framed in sociological terms but always entail psychological assumptions. Psychological accounts, in their turn, entail assumptions about the adaptive “design” of evolved mental mechanisms and processes. Thus, explicit attention to recent theory and research on psychology and evolution can sometimes help criminologists generate productive hypotheses and avoid...

Victim costs of violent crime and resulting injuries.

This DataWatch estimates the costs and monetary value of lost quality of life due to death and nonfatal physical and psychological injury resulting from violent crime. In 1987 physical injury to people age twelve and older resulting from rape, robbery, assault, murder, and arson caused about $10 billion in potential health-related costs, including some unmet mental health care needs. It led to ...

Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave

The study of how crime affects different income groups faces several difficulties. The first is that crime-avoiding activities vary across income groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in avoiding crime. A second difficulty is that, typically, only a small fraction of the population is victimized so that empi...